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Sisse Marie Welling has a mayoral car, but on many days she walks her daughter to school, starting her day on foot and by metro. Foto: Finn Frandsen

Sisse Marie Welling could very well become the new Lord Mayor of Copenhagen. Politiken followed her for a day.

»My children are fortunately too young to understand it«: Sisse Marie Welling kicks off her day by grabbing her personal alarm

Sisse Marie Welling has a mayoral car, but on many days she walks her daughter to school, starting her day on foot and by metro. Foto: Finn Frandsen
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With careful movements, Sisse Marie Welling removes the foil from a kebab wrap and begins to bite small pieces off the warm roll.

»Now it’s all about not getting a stain on my clothes,« she says, pulling out a stack of meeting papers from her bag to use as a makeshift plate.

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